The Endangered Languages Project will act as a hub for interested groups and people to collaborate on research with the aim at documenting & preserving over 3,000 languages that are under threat of being lost to time. Google writes that the site will host resources to help keep some of those alive, such as high-quality recordings of people speaking the languages, copies of historical manuscripts, e-learning options, and even niche-language social networking opportunities, in addition to research and other documentation. They also write about long-term goals,

Again, I am happy to see this initiative deployed. But I will hold with bated breath if this will truly benefit collaboration between linguistic academics or this is just a bit of nice PR like last year, when Google added Cherokee to its list of languages supported in search, though that option doesn’t seem to exist anymore. You can learn more about the project by watching this promotional video:

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this is one of the few things google is good for other then selling anthro and medical books under apple by dollers. But me and my wife are in the navy but she is tri-lingule and she said having this around is like the tower of bable never existed… which leads me to wonder if we are learning all the luanguese of the world and inter-minggling as a species then would it be possible in 8 or so generations to have a almost genetic replica of adam and eve.